Farm Bill: Passed, Vetoed, Passed . . . Uh-Oh.

The Farm Bill was vetoed by the President and has been promptly overridden by the House and is expected to be overridden by the Senate. A firm expression of the intent of the Congress, soon to be the law of the land, right?

Not so much. Follow me over the back fence to the south forty.

It seems that the copy of the farm bill that was sent to the president and vetoed was missing Title III and nobody caught it.

The same bill, without Title III, was passed in the override votes. The original bill passed by both houses hasn't been sent to the president, or vetoed, or overridden. Only part of it has.

The existing farm bill extension expires tomorrow. If it's allowed to lapse, the terms of the original 1949 farm legislation will again be law.

The House is in a tizzy bipartisan meeting right now trying to resolve this sticky problem. And allow me to say that establishing the law of the land is no time to be in too much of a hurry to proofread!

I'll let you know if I hear any more.